Uh oh...

[gotyourgoat]

Yay, back together and rolling! Looks good.

It has got to ride better than leaf springs, or I would hope.

Is the 4 link and coil over a kit?

 

[eskimomann209]

Yay, back together and rolling! Looks good.

It has got to ride better than leaf springs, or I would hope.

Is the 4 link and coil over a kit?

Yessir. I avoid using definitive positives. There’s always someone offended that leaf springs struggle to perform as well as coilovers


Edit. It’s a “kit “ as in brackets were pre welded. It wasn’t an exact kit for the truck including coilovers. I used Qa1s specs tho

 

[Snoots]

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[eskimomann209]

Forgot to add. After new races and bearings for the pinion it did need pinion shim removed.

 

[Catbox]

Yours failed much nicer than mine did....

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I now have an Auburn limited slip in there.
I just sent it to the local guru and trusted his recommendations.

 

[78C10BigTen]

Yours failed much nicer than mine did....

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I now have an Auburn limited slip in there.
I just sent it to the local guru and trusted his recommendations.

Thats what we call catastrophic failure lol

 

[Arkansas_V8]

Yessir. I avoid using definitive positives. There’s always someone offended that leaf springs struggle to perform as well as coilovers


Edit. It’s a “kit “ as in brackets were pre welded. It wasn’t an exact kit for the truck including coilovers. I used Qa1s specs tho

Well whoever denies coil overs perform better is a dumb ass.

I would swap to coil overs in a heartbeat if I could afford to.

 

[eskimomann209]

Yours failed much nicer than mine did....

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I now have an Auburn limited slip in there.
I just sent it to the local guru and trusted his recommendations.

That’s a series 3 carrier and what gears? that’s a thick ole ring gear

 

[Catbox]

That’s a series 3 carrier and what gears? that’s a thick ole ring gear

Those are the stock 3:73s in my 1995 Suburban.
I put a new set in that look just like them and they are glorious.
The rear axle is now the most valuable part of the vehicle...

 

[TubeTruck]

Yours failed much nicer than mine did....

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I now have an Auburn limited slip in there.
I just sent it to the local guru and trusted his recommendations.

That must've sounded nice

 

[Catbox]

Let us just say, it was one of those moments when your gut drops...

The family was loaded up and we were going to a hockey game in downtown.
This crunchy poppy noise happened less than a mile from our house in suburbia.
Needless to say in 2wd it was a dead duck in the intersection.

So I did what any guy with a 4wd vehicle is going to do to get off the road and into a parking lot oh so close by, I put it into four and drove it off the roadway.

The parking lot is where the really bad stuff happened...

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This is the first repair I did.
Another stock center from the junkyard as we were not financially ready to deal with this.
It only lasted another 2 years.
Never going to use the stock setup again....

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